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Ultima Elenda [2x Elenda + 2x Teysa + Liesa + Delney + Atheros + Drana and Linvala + Daxos + Ayli]
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Commander

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Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (plst) RIX-157

Commander

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Creature

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Elenda, Saint of Dusk

Lifelink, hexproof from instants As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

Creature
Elenda, Saint of Dusk (fdn) 346
Vampire Gourmand

Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card and this creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Vampire Gourmand (fdn) 74

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173

Finisher

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Lifegain

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Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 471Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 471
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (mul) 2
Debt to the Deathless

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (dgm) 64
Goldnight Redeemer

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each other creature you control.

Creature
Goldnight Redeemer (avr) 23
Kalastria Highborn

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kalastria Highborn (fdn) 607
Leyline of Hope

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Leyline of Hope (dsk) 18
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (j25) 122
Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sunscorch Regent (blc) 158
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (fdn) 186

Lifegain

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Removal

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Angel of Despair

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target permanent.

Creature
Angel of Despair (sch) 22
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. {1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Creature
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (fdn) 652
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (ddk) 18
Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Instant
Cut Down (dmu) 89
Death Grasp

Death Grasp deals X damage to any target. You gain X life.

Sorcery
Death Grasp (ddk) 32
Doomskar

Destroy all creatures. Foretell {1}{W}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Doomskar (khm) 334
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (fdn) 575
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Lothlórien Blade

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls. Equip Elf {2} Equip {5}

Artifact
Lothlórien Blade (ltc) 77
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (cmm) 49
Sheltered by Ghosts

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward {2}.

Enchantment
Sheltered by Ghosts (dsk) 30
Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Terminus (dsc) 70
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122

Removal

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Artifact

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Blazing Torch

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies. Equipped creature has "{T}, Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to any target." Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Blazing Torch (inr) 254
Celestial Armor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has flying. Equip {3}{W} ({3}{W}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Celestial Armor (fdn) 5
Ravenous Amulet

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card and put a soul counter on this artifact. Activate only as a sorcery. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of soul counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Ravenous Amulet (fdn) 131

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Drain

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Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Vengeful Bloodwitch

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 325

Drain

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Infect

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Glistening Oil

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Glistening Oil (nph) 62

Infect

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Protection

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Enduring Angel

Creature
Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17
Frontline Medic

Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature
Frontline Medic (ltc) 169
Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant
Inkshield (dsc) 221
Leyline of Sanctity

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Enchantment
Leyline of Sanctity (wot) 10
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (dsc) 104
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 355

Protection

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Sac Outlet

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Indulgent Aristocrat

Lifelink {2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Indulgent Aristocrat (inr) 384

Sac Outlet

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Draw

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Dusk Legion Duelist

Vigilance Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Dusk Legion Duelist (mom) 344
Mazemind Tome

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Artifact
Mazemind Tome (fdn) 676
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (fdn) 615

Draw

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Instant

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Live or Die

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Destroy target creature.

Instant
Live or Die (dsk) 107

Instant

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (dsc) 368
Life Insurance

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Life Insurance (dsc) 224
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (dsc) 100
Orzhov Cluestone

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. {W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Orzhov Cluestone (dgm) 142
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (dsc) 249
Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94

Ramp

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Stax

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Drana and Linvala

Flying, vigilance Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated. Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Creature
Drana and Linvala (mom) 305

Stax

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Counters

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Light of the Legion

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) When this creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each white creature you control.

Creature
Light of the Legion (j25) 218
Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Creature
Mikaeus, the Lunarch (j25) 225

Counters

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Evasion

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Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Delney, Streetwise Lookout (mkm) 12
Faerie Dreamthief

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Faerie Dreamthief (woe) 89

Evasion

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Land

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Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (dsc) 268
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (dsc) 283
Haunted Fengraf

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Haunted Fengraf (c18) 254
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (cmm) 1007
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (dsc) 292
Orzhov Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (fdn) 692
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dsk) 277
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 281
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (dsc) 312
Valgavoth's Lair

Hexproof This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land Enchantment
Valgavoth's Lair (dsk) 327
Westvale Abbey

Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 474Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 474

Land

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Recursion

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Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature. Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled (dsc) 212
Goryo's Vengeance

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Goryo's Vengeance (dsc) 372
Illicit Masquerade

Flash When this enchantment enters, put an impostor counter on each creature you control. Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Illicit Masquerade (mkm) 88
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (inr) 433

Recursion

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Tokens

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Restless Bloodseeker

Creature
Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (inr) 463Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (inr) 463
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (mul) 61
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, investigate for each opponent who lost life this turn. Whenever a Clue you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch (mkm) 234

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Suggestions (cards in other decks or not owned)

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Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 356
Nesting Dovehawk

Flying At the beginning of combat on your turn, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) Whenever a creature token you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Nesting Dovehawk (moc) 17
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 362

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Tokens & Extras

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Blood

{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Blood (tinr) 21
Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tinr) 22
Human Cleric

Creature Token
Human Cleric (tinr) 19
Inkling

Flying

Creature Token
Inkling (tdsc) 21
Spirit

Flying

Creature Token
Spirit (tmkm) 12
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tfdn) 23
Vampire

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature Token
Vampire (tmom) 3

Tokens & Extras

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Deck stats

50 pips - 34 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
44 pips - 33 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
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0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This is my main deck.\n\nAn Orzhov deck built with my favorite commander Elenda and my strongest and/or most favorite black and white cards for life drain, life gain, tokens, recursion and sacrifice.\n\nGame plan is simple: Pump Elenda, the Dusk Rose, gain life, go to town with her using Atheros' coin counters until she dies, swarm with lifelink vampire tokens, gain even more life, protect the health and then finish with a maxed out Elenda, Saint of Dusk. If anything doesn't go by plan, Delney, Teysa and Ink shield will do the rest.\n\n02/13/2025 Comment: \nReduced burn a little to not immediately become a nuisance.\n\n02/21/2025 Comment:\nThe Meathook Massacre now lifted this deck to Bracket 3 thanks to two pretty beefy combos.\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://commanderspellbook.com/combo/1162-5755/"},"insert":"https://commanderspellbook.com/combo/1162-5755/"},{"insert":"\nAt this point i will try to get hold of Vito to have the second endgame Combo ready, too, so the deck actually performs in Bracket 3.\nAdditionally i added three cards to push the +1/+1 Counter generation in the deck:\nDusk Legion Duelist"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mikaeus, the Lunarch"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Light of the Legion"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Enchantments are still a bit all over the place, gonna have to pull some good ones from Tarkir this year. :P\n\nUpdate 01/27/2025: Removed Kaervek for another deck and replaced him with J25's Sangromancer.\nUpdate 01/29/2025: Replaced Archpriest of Shadows with Heliod's Intervention.\nUpdate 01/30/2025: Replaced Terror of Towashi with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel.\nUpdate 02/03/2025: Replaced Seraph of New Capenna with Enduring Angel.\nUpdate 02/04/2025: Replaced Essence Reliquiary with Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death.\nUpdate 02/13/2025: Replaced Myojin of Night's Reach with Angel of Despair\nUpdate 02/13/2025: Replaced Whispdrinker Vampire with Teysa Karlov\nUpdate 02/13/2025: Replaced Scorn-Blade Beserker with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim\nUpdate 02/13/2025: Replaced Sinister Monolith with Lothlórien Blade\nUpdate 02/13/2025: Replaced Stormkirk Bloodthief with Daxos, Blessed by the Sun\nUpdate 02/19/2025: Replaced Exemplar of Light with Goldnight Redeemer\nUpdate 02/19/2025: Replaced Crystal Barricade with Sphere of Safety\nUpdate 02/21/2025: Replaced Valgavoth's Faithful with The Meathook Massacre\nUpdate 02/21/2025: Replaced Intangible Virtue with Dusk Legion Duelist\nUpdate 02/21/2025: Replaced Twinblade Blessing with Mikaeus, the Lunarch from J25\nUpdate 02/21/2025: Replaced Mind Stone with Light of the Legion\nUpdate 02/21/2025: Replaced Cultivator's Caravan with Blazing Torch\n"}]}
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